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Alice Walker is an internationally celebrated writer, poet and activist whose books include seven novels, four collections of short stories, four children’s books, and volumes of essays and poetry. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1983 and the National Book Award. Walker has been an activist all of her adult life and believes that learning to extend the range of our compassion is activity and work available to all. She is a staunch defender not only of human rights, but of the rights of all living beings. Alice Walker was awarded the Mahmoud Darwish Literary Prize for Fiction 2016.
CREDITS
Grateful acknowledgement to the following original publishers and rights holders of the pieces listed below: ‘Welcome’ by Mahmoud Darwish, reprinted by kind permission of Tania Nasir, translation by Ahdaf Soueif; ‘Through the Looking-Glass’ by Adam Foulds, first published in the Jewish Quarterly, 23 July 2010; ‘Once Upon a Jerusalem’ by Susan Abulhawa, a shorter version of the text that appears here was originally published in Elle India, July 2016; ‘Sleeping in Gaza’ by Najwan Darwish, first appeared in English in Nothing More to Lose, published by New York Review Books, April 2014 (© Najwan Darwish 2000, 2012, 2013, 2014; translation copyright © Kareem James Abu-Zeid, 2014); ‘In the Company of Writers’ by Kamila Shamsie, features Kamila Shamsie’s translation of Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s poem, ‘Falastini Bachay Kay Liye Lori’, published with kind permission of the Faiz Foundation Trust, Lahore, and © Moneeza Hashmi, Salima Hashmi. The lines from Mahmoud Darwish’s ‘Guests from the Sea’ are taken from the Anthology of Modern Palestinian Literature (ed. Salma Khadra Jayyusi) © Columbia University Press, 1995. Lena Jayyusi and WS Merwin’s translation of Mahmoud Darwish’s ‘You Will Carry the Butterfly’s Burden’ first appeared in Poetry East Issue 27, Spring 1989; ‘An Image’ by Geoff Dyer, first published in the New Republic, 6 August 2014; ‘Exit Strategy’ by China Miéville, first published in Guernica, 1 November 2013; ‘Shujaiyya Dust’ by Molly Crabapple, is an abridged edit of the piece that first appeared in Vice (https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/shujaiya-dust-molly-crabapple-456), 30 June 2015; ‘Gaza, from the Diaspora – Parts One and Two’ by Jehan Bseiso, were first published on The Electronic Intifada (https://electronicintifada.net/), 28 July and 14 August 2014 respectively; ‘The City of David’ by Ghada Karmi, is an extract from Return: A Palestinian Memoir, published by Verso, © Ghada Karmi, 2015; ‘The End of Apartheid’ by Henning Mankell, first published in Swedish in Aftonbladet as ‘Stoppad av apartheid’, 1 June 2009 (http://www.aftonbladet.se/kultur/article11854434.ab), the English translation is reproduced here by kind permission of the translator, Robert Johnsson; ‘Equality, Supremacy and Security’ by Ed Pavlić, first appeared as ‘The Goal is Clarity’ online on Africa is a Country (http://africasacountry.com/2014/07/the-goal-is-clarity-war-sports-and-the-dangerous-delightful-and-disgusting-elasticity-of-experience/), July 18 2014; ‘A Gift for PalFest’ by Alice Walker, the poem ‘They Will Always Be More Beautiful Than You’ is taken from the author’s website (www.alicewalkersgarden.com), © Alice Walker, 2015; ‘Until it Isn’t’ and ‘This Poem Will Not End Apartheid’ by Remi Kanazi, taken from Before the Next Bomb Drops: Rising Up from Brooklyn to Palestine, published by Haymarket Books, © Remi Kanazi, 2015; ‘Permission to Enter’ and ‘Silence is a Language’ by Jeremy Harding, were originally published by the London Review of Books; ‘Cold Violence’ by Teju Cole, originally published as ‘Slow Violence, Cold Violence’ in the Guardian, 17 April 2015; ‘The Gaza Suite: Gaza, Jabaliya, Rafah, Tel el Hawa, Zeitoun’ first appeared in Born Palestinian, Born Black & The Gaza Suite, UpSet Press, Inc., 2009.
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